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Legal English, also known as legalese, [1] is a register of English used in legal writing. It differs from day-to-day spoken English in a variety of ways including the use of specialized vocabulary, syntactic constructions, and set phrases such as legal doublets .
A person cannot be convicted of a crime, unless it can be proven that the crime was even committed. / ˈ k ɔːr p ə s d ɪ ˈ l ɪ k t aɪ / corpus juris: body of law The complete collection of laws of a particular jurisdiction or court. / ˈ k ɔːr p ə s ˈ dʒ uː r ɪ s / corpus juris civilis: body of civil law
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IIRC (34A: "Unless my memory is failing me," online) IIRC = If I Recall Correctly. APE (35A: Primate in a long-running sci-fi franchise) That long-running sci-fi franchise is Planet of the APEs ...
Legalese is an English term first used in 1914 [13] for legal writing that is very difficult for laymen to read and understand, the implication being that this abstruseness is deliberate for excluding the legally untrained and to justify high fees. Legalese, as a term, has been adopted in other languages.
Damage feasant or faisant.Doing damage. A term applied to a person's cattle or beasts found upon another's land, doing damage by treading down the grass, grain, etc. [9] ...
The Lotus case of 1926–1927 established the freedom of sovereign states to act as they wished, unless they chose to bind themselves by a voluntary agreement or there was an explicit restriction in international law. [19]
In legal usage in the English-speaking world, an act of God, act of nature, or damnum fatale ("loss arising from inevitable accident") is an event caused by no direct human action (e.g. severe or extreme weather and other natural disasters) for which individual persons are not responsible and cannot be held legally liable for loss of life, injury, or property damage.